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When a convicted murderer,
Billy O’Brien, serving two consecutive life sentences, is suddenly released
from a maximum security prison due to a clerical error, a massive man-hunt
ensues.
Not
only are the BPD and Massachusetts State Police trying to find the escaped
convict — but so are the FBI and the CIA — and the Mob — each for entirely
different reasons. Chris Callahan is a retired Boston homicide detective,
who also happens to be O’Brien’s childhood friend… and the officer who put him
behind bars.
The
entire law enforcement community agrees on only one thing:
Callahan
is the only one who can bring him in…alive.
“There’s Always Tomorrow
is a riveting read of mystery and adventure, very much recommended reading” Midwest
Book Review
AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
AVAILABLE ON KINDLE
Not very far from the big city is a very special farm.
It’s special because it grows special trees…Christmas trees!
The trees are able to stretch their graceful branches covered with needles and pine cones toward the sun as they grow taller and taller-
all but one.
all but one.
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Did the perfect company get away with the perfect crime?
They had the perfect business plan. The investors ponied up the
millions they needed. The company was humming along on all cylinders. And then one day they
disappeared. Along with all their research, files and computers ... and a vial
of the deadly Ebola virus that no one knew they had.
Enter Stephen Blackman, a fifty-something burned-out lawyer
working his first case as a private investigator. Hired to try and find the
missing scientists, Blackman turns up a dead body instead. And when the FBI arrives on
the scene Blackman can’t be sure if they’re good guys or bad. But he’s caught
up in this high-stakes, high-risk and highly confusing case to find the missing
scientists before someone releases the deadly virus on an unsuspecting world. Blackman bounces against
the worlds of international espionage, national politics, and high technology
in the first of a series featuring a different kind of private eye.
"Simply stated, "Hot Tea...Cold Case" by D. G. Stern is a riveting mystery/suspense story that will seize and hold the reader's total attention from beginning to end. Superbly crafted twists and turns, all leading to an unexpected and climatic conclusion, "Hot Tea...Cold Case" is very highly recommended for mystery fan personal reading lists and will prove to be a popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections." Midwest Book Review
"An impressive debut from a talented new writer." ME Magazine
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Golf has never tasted as good!
Recipes from America's Finest Clubs-The Southeast
"This is a collector's item and the perfect gift for any avid golfer." Golf Central Magazine
Recipes from America's Finest Clubs-The Southeast
"This is a collector's item and the perfect gift for any avid golfer." Golf Central Magazine
"Entertaining golf buddies for the holidays?
This holiday season you can check out ‘Recipes from America’s Finest
Clubs'." Golfmedialibrary.com
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
"It is simple and easy to read and the illustrations remind you of beautiful water color beach images. I would recommend for all ages but is best for ages 5-18. 5 Stars!" KIDS FIRST!
"25 Days of Tropical Christmas takes all readers on a
magical journey to distant shores to experience a different tradition of
Christmas." Midwest Book Review
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Spring in New York finds a group of seven friends
struggling to reunite a year after college. There’s the beautiful, yet
all-too-trusting Lana; David, the urbane womanizer; lost Aaron; Amanda, the
ambitious opportunist; and Hunter, the troubled pariah. Telling their story is
Will Harrison who, while trying to bring his friends together, begins to
explore a future with his childhood sweetheart, Emily. Dingy subways, towering
apartments, candlelit tables, white hospital rooms, and of course, Central
Park, are just some of the destinations in this story of relationships – both
strengthened and forgotten.
There
once was a boy
with
a blanket quite rare
that
his mother had told him
was
made with great care.
"Specially created illustrations with strokes of crayon color offer a vibrant backdrop to this charming verse story for children ages 6-10." Midwest Book Review
Auto racing is a dangerous sport. Everyone knows that.
Sometimes people are even killed-usually drivers...So the death of driver, Charles William Tyler Ill wasn't totally unexpected, except that he was stabbed in the back-in bed-in his motor home-at the Citrus Grove Raceway.
"D.G. captured every bit of the vintage world of racing world. It's a vivid picture with believable personalities and great cars, and one "who dun it" that will keep you guessing to the very end." Jeanette Veitenheimer Lime Rock Park Historic Festival Executive Administrator
"You have a great understanding of the characters that have passion for the sport and the cars that they race. I enjoyed the book immensely. Great story." Stephen Page Founder, Chairman and CEO Vintage Racing League
"Stern's sense of dialog and breezy style as well as his occasional spot on observations of the vintage racing scene make for a tough book to put down," Vintage Sports Car
"I believe this story will entertain young children and includes many pro-social and educational benefits. Many young readers may want to visit a fire station or learn even more about theseamazing heroes after reading this book." KIDS FIRST!
I'm
Francis ... and I'm a mouse. Well, not an ordinary mouse ... I'm a firehouse
mouse because I live in a firehouse.
Being
a firefighting mouse can be exciting and very rewarding, especially when I help
people.
"(Francis-the Firehouse Mouse) is very informative but also extremely easy to understand for children which is very important. We are honored that you decided to write a book that has a message that’s near and dear to a lot of our hearts, fire safety."
Florida Fire Chiefs' Association
"We wish you the best of luck with Francis the Firehouse Mouse!"
City of Orlando Fire Department
There
is almost nothing quite as magnificent as a sunrise, standing
on the
seventeenth tee at the Indian Whisper Golf Course, on
Little Loggerhead Island,
off the coast of Savannah, Georgia.
By noon tomorrow the vista will radically
change when the 35th
annual Concours d' Elegance at Loggerhead opens its doors
to
about six hundred of the world's most glorious and glamorous
motor machines.
But when a body is found in the trunk of a
beautiful red Mercedes everything
comes apart and there's
Chaos at the Concours.
"Well-conceived and written. The Bentley Gang were in fine form. Many, many thanks for sharing your passion for all that is “collector cars” with me." Stephen J. L. Page,
Founder & CEO, Racing and Cars
"D. G. Stern masterfully shares with the reader the complicated inner workings of Ballard's thinking, revealing how he determined the motives for the murders and the evidence that led to a conclusion of what happened. It is obvious that Stern is a lover of vintage vehicles; he even has Ballard often residing in a vintage 1955 Airstream Flying Cloud travel trailer. Chaos at the Concours is fast-paced, exciting, and full of D. G. Stern’s red herrings. If you like murder mysteries, you will appreciate Stern’s work." AuthorsReading.com
"Stern's breezy and almost (but not quite) glib style is simply great fun and we recommend this one to any and all looking for a light novel with a motoring background to the story. It is assuredly a keeper." Vintage Sports Car
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"Stern's breezy and almost (but not quite) glib style is simply great fun and we recommend this one to any and all looking for a light novel with a motoring background to the story. It is assuredly a keeper." Vintage Sports Car
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Sophie
the Skunk is a funny, heartwarming story for young children, which emphasizes
the importance of children trying new experiences and of their parents allowing
them to investigate different avenues without pressure.
Sophie
the Skunk is written for all those who hope to give their children the
opportunity to find for themselves their talents and to have confidence in
themselves as they learn that trying is good and winning is not everything.
In
our world of competition, Sophie the Skunk stands out as a hope for simplicity
and growth.
"I believe young children will enjoy Sophie and
relate to her struggles and obstacles as she searches to find her talent. The
illustrations are wonderful. Without any hesitation, I give this 5 out of 5
stars and recommend it for ages 3 to 8." KIDS FIRST!
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The
fact that Cosmo Costello, a well-known Central Florida mobster, is killed
doesn’t send seismic waves through the law enforcement community except when it
is discovered that a rather significant amount of cocaine is missing.
Full time automotive journalist and
part time special deputy sheriff Thomas Ballard and his significant other, full
time Orange County Florida Sheriff’s detective Olivia Nederfield get called
into headquarters to identify Costello’s remains. The only apparent clue is a
photograph dedicated to the deceased by an aspiring young stock car driver and a calendar with entries coinciding with
car races in which he is racing, together with what appears to be payments of
significant amounts of money.
The
next race is at the iconic Daytona Speedway and Olivia and Thomas set off to
try and connect the dots…find the killer and find the drugs in the fast paced
world of automobile racing.
"Let's cut right to the chase, Stern's third Thomas Ballard novel, Panic in the Pits, is even better than his first two-and we loved the first two." Vintage Sports Car
"Let's cut right to the chase, Stern's third Thomas Ballard novel, Panic in the Pits, is even better than his first two-and we loved the first two." Vintage Sports Car
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Even Francis needs a vacation every once in a while. He decides to visit his brother, Freddie, who lives on a farm far from the bustling city.
There are many chores that have to be done each day-caring for the animals-working in the fields-picking vegetables for the market and planting new crops to harvest later in the season.
It is really different from fighting fires.
"This book teaches children
about the world around them as well as some of the good values one should have
and practice. It has great educational content, wonderful collages of real
pictures of objects and designs, great vocabulary and stimulates family reading
due to its high-level vocabulary." KIDS FIRST!
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Francis is exhausted. He has been working extra shifts because many of his fellow firefighters have been out sick. The Chief tells Francis that he needs to take a few days off and relax.
Francis decides that he will go to the beach and visit his sister, Fiona, who works as a lifeguard. It has been a long time since he has walked along the sandy shore.
Fiona is delighted that her firefighting big brother is coming and she wants to share with him all the amazing things the oceans have to offer.
AVAILABLE JANUARY, 2021
Technically, twins are two children born
about the same time from the same mother.
Twins are more common than you’d think–about once in every ninety
births. Twins can be either fraternal or
identical. The former develop when two
separate eggs are fertilized at about the same time. Identical twins are produced as the result of
a single fertilized egg splitting in two. Each half develops as a separate fetus, but with identical genes.
There are several additional twin anomalies:
including so-called mirror image twins, who are identical, but in reverse. Ryan
was the yang to Sean’s ying. Even though
they were identical, they were opposite.
Ryan was right-handed, but Sean was left-handed. Ryan was an excellent student-not so with
Sean. They were, however, inextricably
bound together which is not surprising. There was nothing one wouldn’t do for
the other.
AVAILABLE DECEMBER, 2020
Many think that Formula One is the apogee of motor racing, although a lot of NASCAR fans and drivers might disagree. The
selection of the Cedar Grove Raceway as host track for this year's
event was a feather in the cap of car racing in Central Florida.
When the crew chief of the championship point leading team is found near the sweeping right hander at the end of the back straightaway, the racing community is shaken up because the cause of death was obviously the result of the bullet hole in his chest
AVAILABLE SPRING, 2021
A vacation is supposed to be relaxing-sun, sand and gentle zephyrs stirring, not stories of lost luggage, rental cars without air conditioning and long lines at the best restaurants.
That’s what I had intended, but as with all things, that is not
While
walking along the pier one beautiful August morning,
admiring the gorgeous yachts and beautiful
people, sipping a delicious cup of iced tea
from Annie’s Café, Kristen and I notice an older
man sitting in the “fighting chair” of a 50 foot
something offshore fishing boat-obviously dead.
Once you open the door to Anna Belle’s bakery,
you know that
you have entered some place very
special. The smell of freshly baked bread; the
taste of
double chocolate chip cookies; the vision of colorfully
decorated
birthday cakes and the sound of… Wait!
Pastry doesn’t have a sound.
After you meet Anna Belle, you also know you have met
someone quite marvelous. She is creative, full of energy
and probably the best
detective in town.
Join Anna Belle and her feline assistant, Jocko, as they
reveal the true identity of the culprit who has been
robbing neighbors and end
her light finger lifting of precious jewels in
Fudge Fatale.
Fudge Fatale.
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY, 2021
Neptune Press is pleased to announce that screenplay Ice Dancer, by D.G. Stern, has been endorsed by KIDS FIRST! In addition Ice Dancer was awarded an Honorable Mention for best screenplay at the Colorado Film Festival
Neptune Press is proud to announce that screenplay Mr. Mayor by D.G. Stern, was an official selection for the Portland Comedy Film Festival (2017 and 2018) and an award nominee at the Houston Comedy Film Festival.
Neptune Press is proud to announce that screenplay Tall, Dark and Handsome by D.G. Stern, was an award nominee for the Austin Comedy Short Film Festival.
Neptune Press is proud to announce that screenplay What Goes Around... by D.G. Stern, is an official selection of the Houston Comedy Film Festival.
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